Playing a big open-world RPG, the main task available to you, of course, is to go out and find things to fight. That is true of playing almost every game, perhaps. One of the things that still seems to define many RPGs (as that becomes increasingly difficult) is the extensive inventory of items that you can collect as you progress. Treasure hunting, in other words.
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Today, having described the playable races, I’ll talk about how you can specifically and elaborately customise your character.
Let’s start with the standard, facial customisation.
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There are three playable races in The Crossing: humans, gate people, and simulacra. Choosing which race you wish to play as is the first thing you do upon entering the game. So let’s begin.
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Let’s all sit down and talk about videogames.
What I’m going to do this week is build one. It won’t be my ideal videogame, exactly. My ideal videogame would be a one-player game, and I’d want to create a world for it all of its own. In this case, I’m going to use the story I’m currently working on as a background, because that makes it a little easier to pull this off.
I’m also going to talk about how I think a multiplayer online RPG should be made (chief goal: please and amuse Marian), because playing Final Fantasy XIV last fall was really great in terms of re-connecting with people I knew from seven or eight years ago, but ultimately pretty dull in terms of personal entertainment (in fairness I trust that the game will eventually be fixed up nicely, but I didn’t have the patience and fortitude to hang around until then).
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You remember the scarf on my want list? Sachi, my nernie since the days of yore, actually ordered it for me as a surprise gift. You guys should all know about Sachi. She’s an absurdly good poet. This is her book, much extolled. But I knew her back when she was an unknown fancy entity, and that makes me fancy too. BNE!
The goblin will model it for us (also wearing this Yoshi Kondo coat that I see in the Lark window every day [in the same range as the jacket I drew here. It’s that mysterious shade of rose-taupe that really makes it stand out, and I still want it with the burning passion of a thousand exploding suns]).
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This a perfect muffin, if ever there was one. Look at its split flanks, all golden and seedy.
This is probably the closest I’m ever going to come to that ideal seedcake of legend. You know the seedcake in The Hobbit, that Bilbo is forced to share with the Dwarves? I’m obsessed with it. I think about it almost daily. Fuck a dragon, it’s all about the seedcake! There’s a good seedcake scene in Jane Eyre, too. It’s a thing, I’m telling you. Literary seedcake. And this muffin is pretty much there.
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Happy New Year(‘s Eve). I went through my camera’s memory card, and below are some hchommish things from the past year that never made it up for one reason or another. There are quite a lot of round, baked food objects. Apparently that’s what I’m into.
My plans for tonight involve watching a documentary about the solar system with my dog. This is not a night to waste on fripperies, people. Get right down to the good stuff.
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Look. Brandon and my sister made me an adventurer’s inventory. There may have been some high-pitched noises, it’s hard to say.
Happy cribbers, people!
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This is a knit jacket-sweater thing that I’ve wanted for the past couple months. It’s exactly my sort simple old man get-up, yes? I know you all think it ought to be made of baby unicorn hairs for that price, but I could almost imagine myself going for it if circumstances were really favourable. As it is, that second studio/apartment has to take precedence.
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You remember my space sniper (and the Goblin Knoll, for that matter)? Here’s the ship to match. Man, wouldn’t a cosy spaceship be the best thing ever? Hot damn, yes it would.
Space ports, though, would have to be all muffin shops and fine croissanteries (for space muffins and space croissants).
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Best episode of Ducktales ever: when Magica De Spell seperates herself from her shadow, and has to flee from it when it turns against her. Some serious Wizard of Earthsea shit, right there.
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I made this want list a couple weeks ago, before I came up to my aunt and uncle’s cabin. So now that I’m here, it all seems pretty absurd. Most of it. Maybe not the biscuits, I definitely need those. Anyway, is it just me who has a folder of links to things that I want? These are the items that are currently in that folder.
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This is a “Yoshi Kondo” jacket from my favourite store, LARK. Well-wedged in the realm of the impossible. And kind of girly for me, I thought at first, but maybe not so much girly as Little Lord Fontleroy-ish.
Little Lord Fontleroy turned scampy street rat? Can I get away with that?
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